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ULYSSES CORNELIUS COOPER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 2, 1931 – July 18, 1966
Service recordUlysses Cornelius Cooper, of Eastman, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 2, 1931
- Home of record
- Eastman, Georgia (Dodge County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1966
- Age
- 34
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 32
- ROBERT HERMAN BUTLER JRSergeant · July 18, 1966
- RAMON DESCHAMPSPrivate First Class · July 18, 1966
- JOSEPH WESLEY DUNNPrivate First Class · July 18, 1966
- PATRICK PETER DWYERSpecialist Five · July 18, 1966
From Eastman
- DONALD WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- JOSEPH MELVIN JONESMaster Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- JERRY LEE FORDHAMSpecialist Four · August 13, 1969
- LEM CLARKSergeant First Class · June 5, 1971
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.